{"id":10985,"date":"2023-06-19T14:01:46","date_gmt":"2023-06-19T14:01:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=10985"},"modified":"2023-06-19T14:01:46","modified_gmt":"2023-06-19T14:01:46","slug":"your-7-biggest-questions-about-trumps-latest-indictment-answered","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=10985","title":{"rendered":"Your 7 biggest questions about Trump\u2019s latest indictment, answered"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\n\n&#8220;An indictment is a document that lays out crimes a grand jury \u2014 a group of 16 to 23 people selected at random \u2014 believes someone committed. Trump\u2019s announcement on Thursday means at least 12 members of a federal grand jury were convinced, given the evidence provided by the Justice Department, that there is probable cause Trump committed a federal crime and should face a trial if prosecutors continue to pursue the case.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The decision to indict doesn\u2019t necessarily indicate guilt on Trump\u2019s part; his innocence or guilt will be decided at a trial. It also doesn\u2019t stop him from running for president.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8230;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8220;The indictment says that Trump then \u201cendeavored to obstruct the FBI and grand jury investigations\u201d into his retention of the documents and to \u201cconceal\u201d that he had done so by directing his staff to move the documents around his properties, and by proposing that his attorneys lie about him having the documents. Trump also is accused of having suggested hiding or destroying them, at one point telling his lawyers, \u201cWell look isn\u2019t it better if there are no documents?\u201d&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.vox.com\/politics\/2023\/6\/9\/23755468\/trump-jail-criminal-indictment-explained-espionage-cannon\">https:\/\/www.vox.com\/politics\/2023\/6\/9\/23755468\/trump-jail-criminal-indictment-explained-espionage-cannon<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;An indictment is a document that lays out crimes a grand jury \u2014 a group of 16 to 23 people selected at random \u2014 believes someone committed. Trump\u2019s announcement on Thursday means at least 12 members of a federal grand jury were convinced, given the evidence provided by the Justice Department, that there is probable cause Trump committed a federal crime and should face a trial if prosecutors continue to pursue the case.<br \/>\nThe decision to indict doesn\u2019t necessarily indicate guilt on Trump\u2019s part; his innocence or guilt will be decided at a trial. It also doesn\u2019t stop him from running for president.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The indictment says that Trump then \u201cendeavored to obstruct the FBI and grand jury investigations\u201d into his retention of the documents and to \u201cconceal\u201d that he had done so by directing his staff to move the documents around his properties, and by proposing that his attorneys lie about him having the documents. Trump also is accused of having suggested hiding or destroying them, at one point telling his lawyers, \u201cWell look isn\u2019t it better if there are no documents?\u201d&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[744,280,221,1853,170],"class_list":["post-10985","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-share","tag-crime","tag-criminal-justice","tag-donald-trump","tag-indictment","tag-trump"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10985","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10985"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10985\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10986,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10985\/revisions\/10986"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10985"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10985"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10985"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}